[K12OSN] Installing K12LTSP to a SATA Hard Disk on theKT600/VT8237 Chipset

[Matthew Ross]

I am currently having headaches installing linux on our Brand New 
SuperMicro 5013C-MT. This is a 1U Pentium 4 server, with 4 hot-swapable 
SATA drive bays in front. The only trouble is that the SATA controller 
is not exactly supported by Linux yet.

The SATA controler on this system is using a Marvell chipset. Looking 
around on various lists, it looks like alpha support has just appeared 
in an open-source implementation of the 'libata' driver, but that's only 
in the most recent 2.6.6 and 2.6.7 kernels. I don't know of any distros 
which install using those kernels. Checking with Supermicro's website, 
they have binary RPM drivers for Redhat 8 and 9 and for Suse, but what 
if I wanted to install appon a mirrored system drive?

If you want to see the current list of supported SATA drivers, this page 
here has a fairly good summary: 
http://www.linuxmafia.com/faq/Hardware/sata.html

Wishing everything was open source,
--Matt

Burke Almquist wrote:

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> I think you might need to change a setting in BIOS for it to "legacy" 
> something for it to work.  Just something I've heard, not seen first 
> hand.
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> On Jul 7, 2004, at 10:49 AM, Krsnendu dasa wrote:
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>> I had no problems installing it on my other motherboard – same chip 
>> 2500 Athlon xp with Silicon Image SATA controller. But the VT8237 
>> Chipset is not recognized by K12LTSP even though it is recognized by 
>> bios. I have tried following the instructions on the website 
>> mentioned below using the other machine as the host. But it isn’t 
>> working yet.
>>